Wit & Wisdom
From Shirley MacLaine, Randall Munroe, Alice Munro, Erica Jong,Thom Yorke, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vera Pavlova
“It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.”
Shirley MacLaine, quoted in the New Statesman (U.K.)
“To the surprise of pundits, numbers continue to be the best system for determining which of two things is larger.”
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Cartoonist Randall Munroe, quoted in The Washington Post
“Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it’s going well as when it’s going badly.”
Alice Munro, quoted in The Wall Street Journal
“Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.”
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Erica Jong, quoted in the Toronto Globe and Mail
“It’s easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher—and cooler.”
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, quoted in The Sydney
Morning Herald
“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, quoted in the Associated Press
“Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.”
Poet Vera Pavlova, quoted in TheDailyBeast.com
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